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Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.

Henrik Ibsen

The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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Human Myself Responsibility Role
It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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Act Beautiful Courage Known Liberty
When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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Sold Time Value Yourself
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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Fools Freedom Intelligence Lying Majority People Population Right
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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Goals Heart Oneself See Uplift
I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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Afraid Capital Education Invention Machine Myself Science
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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Action Dare Game Happiness Winning

Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.

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